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• It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund
• At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of over 9
• 9 million
• Sweden consequently has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometre (54/sq mi), with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country
• Approximately 85% of the population lives in urban areas
• Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear and constituting the sea peoples known as the Norsemen
• Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested
• Sweden is part of the geographical area of Fennoscandia
• The climate is in general very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence, that in spite of this still retains warm continental summers
• Today, Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state